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SDA Building Satellite Operations Centers in Grand Forks, N.D., and Redstone Arsenal

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

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SDA Building Satellite Operations Centers in Grand Forks, N.D., and Redstone Arsenal

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is building satellite operations centers at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., and Redstone Arsenal, Ala., as the agency prepares to issue a solicitation, possibly next week, to man those centers, SDA Director Derek Tournear said on Jan. 12. SDA is to award the contract for the operations centers early this year. The winner will provide the necessary network operations and command and control to tie SDA satellite constellations together, Tournear told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace…

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